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125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

December 10, 1884 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

A box of hair was lost on Water Street last Saturday evening. Will the finder please leave it at this office?

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E.P White & Co., are putting up an addition to their furniture store.

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Boston has 24,000 female music scholars.

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The Russian Government is building ironclads for the Black Sea.

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

December 14, 1909

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

The exterior of the new United States weather building at Norwich University is completed and work on the interior is going forward. The building is a most substantial appearing structure and a great addition to the buildings on the hill.

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No progress has apparently been made towards a settlement

the granite tie up the past week and as far as could be learned this morning there was little prospect that anything definite would be done toward that end the present week. The Barre Times of last evening had this to say of the situation: With the action taken at Saturday's meetings in Northfield and this city, the prospects for a speedy settlement of the differences in the granite industry are lessened, and it is extremely doubtful now

one will be reached before Christmas. Northfield rejected the suggestions of the joint committee by a unanimous vote, the committee from that branch not voting on them.

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Forgetting strikes and lockouts, the granite manufacturers

Northfield, Montpelier, Barre and other granite centers in Washington County gathered 250 strong Wednesday evening

Woodsmen's hall in Barre for

banquet, given by the Barre Manufacturers association...

Those in attendance from Northfield included John, George, and Levi Cross, Fred Davis, Irving Ellis, Leon Roys, H.

Slack, F. A. Phillips.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

December 12, 1934

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Mrs. Winston Flint was the guest speaker at the Woman's Club meeting Friday afternoon

the Legion house. She gave a very interesting account of her auto trip the past summer, with Mr. Flint and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hartford, to California. This was in the nature of a diary record, the humorous as well as the impressive being included. Of special interest was her description of the national parks visited: The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Sequoia and Yellowstone. Mrs. Flint had with her a large book made up of this diary, snaps and souvenirs. This, too, was greatly enjoyed. Mrs. Beaudette, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Helen Whitney, sang "The Song That Reached My Heart" and for an encore "In My Garden of Dreams." Tea was served, a table in the front room being attractively arranged in yellow, green and white. The silver service used was loaned the club by the Provost Jewelry Store. Those who poured were Mesdames Allison B. Edgerton, Kemp R. B. Flint, Perley D. Baker

and Kenneth I. MacMinn. They were assisted by Mesdames Chester Hartford, John N. Erickson, John V. Ford and Paul H. Steere.

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What is believed to be one of the oldest Central Vermont railway "time cards" in existence has been found in the files of Norwich University. The card bears the date of July 23, 1849. Northfield at that time was headquarters of the Vermont Central railroad. At that time trains were operated over the line from Montpelier to Windsor, and made all intermediate stops, 16 in number. A passenger starting from Montpelier arrived at his White River Junction destination - if the train was on time - in three hours and forty-five minutes, a distance of 67 miles. Instructions on the card are naively expressed; for instance, one rule reading "All freight and irregular trains will keep out of the way of the passenger trains, according to the book of rules and instructions."

50 Years Ago

NEWS AND ADVERTISER

December 10, 1959

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

During the hunting season just past, Vermont chalked up two hunting fatalities and a third hunting accident so tragic it might as well have been fatal. All three happened in Orange County...The state's attorney of Orange County, John Morale of Wells River, has been doing a pretty good job in his first public office...But no states attorney can do the job without public understanding and cooperation. And Morale is no exception. He tells me that hunters ought to dress in really-visible clothing. Tests made by the Air Force, Morale says, show that fluorescent orange is more brightly visible than any other ordinary color; certainly more so than the stock red that's used for hunting jackets, caps and gloves.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

December 13, 1984 25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

Last week's snowstorms took their toll on the Town of Northfield's 1974 GMC dump truck. The truck was totaled after it went off the road and into a brook on Holstrom Road. According to Police Chief Burton Sanders, the driver of the truck switched the two speed rear axle from high to low but the truck failed to go into gear, leaving it in neutral. The truck was headed down hill and the driver had no control over it on the slippery road. The truck went into the brook and hit the other side. The plow on the front of the truck was pushed up on to the front of the truck and the back, which was half full of sand, pushed forward...The driver was miraculously unhurt besides "a few bumps and bruises," Sanders said.